the Leuser Ecosystem exists at a tenuous crossroads. Despite being protected under Indonesian national law, massive industrial development for palm oil, pulp and paper plantations and mining threaten the entire ecosystem, as well as the continued wellbein

Five major palm oil companies - notorious for destroying large areas of rainforest to make room for their palm oil plantations - have agreed to hold a 12 month moratorium on deforestation while an environmental impact study is being conducted.

Tell McDonald's, the largest fast food company in the world, to use Deforestation-Free, sustainable palm oil for the sake of our atmosphere, tropical forests and endangered species, instead of plantations destroying forest and habitat releasing carbon.

Place pressure on Sinohydro, China's largest hydropower company with the most involvement in Stung Cheay Areng dam, and the Cambodian government, to stop the project immediately to save the villagers, environment, and rare species of the Areng Valley.

The last place on earth where critically endangered Sumatran tigers, rhinos, sun bears, elephants and orangutans are found together in one forest is under threat from mining, logging and palm oil companies.
Conservation groups are fighting a spatial plan

Last summer President Daniel Ortega & a Hong Kong company sealed a deal to build a canal across Nicaragua. For this impoverished nation, the project's promises of job and GDP growth are hard to resist. But the environmental costs could be devastating.